A legal blacklist
Last week a company known as The Consulting Association made the news when it was raided by the Information Commussioners Office (ICO). Investigators have allegedly uncovered a secret database of construction workers listing the personal details including their union activities. Such data was allegedly sold to building firms.
While the ICO has vowed to prosecute the firm involved, other workers blacklists are allowed to operate in the open. Back in may 2008 the National Staff Dismissal Register was launched. This database allows retail companies to upload and to access the details of employees who have been dismissed or left while under suspicion of theft, fraud or even simply ‘ causing a loss to the company or another party’. In other words workers who have not been convicted of anything, and against whom nothing has been proven, can very easily have their lives ruined.
Anyone who has done grunt work handling cash for a big company will understand the danger in which innocent workers are being placed. Back when I was 17 I had the misfortune of working in the food kiosks at a major London football club. As with all ventures of this, there were inevitably instances of stock or cash being unaccounted for. And when this took place, the managers held no qualms about throwing accusations at anyone and everyone. It is an absolute disgrace that the lives of workers should be left in the hands of such arseholes.
Reader Comments
That’s fucking shocking. I’m in the relatively lucky position in my job (well, the one that involves cash at any rate – not much hard money floating around in the marketing department…) that the owners understand that in clubs the till’s sometimes short. Technically, if it’s more than a fiver, you’re supposed to make it out of your wages, but I’ve never heard of that happening.
And going on past dismissals, it takes pretty blatant and ongoing thefting to get fired…
And don’t tell me that they have better things to do!
For example, my nickname on forum is DrRussia because me doctor and I’m from Russia
last night we had to go over to the skids place to drop something off and the boys came outside to talk to DH in the front yard. i was in the car, and SS6 came running over to me, he have me a hug and a kiss and then stayed chatting to me for a while before saying “i’d better go and talk to dad now” and running off
i had assumed that DH had told him to say hello to me, but when DH got back in the car he told me that he hadn’t said anything, SS had just run straight over to me when DH said i was in the car
its moments like that that can make a lot of the other cr@p fade away
This came to me while sitting at work freezing to death.
If you had to choose to be really hot or really cold all the time which would you choose and why? I have to deal with both pretty regularly with deployments and stuff.
Right now I’m in the desert. It’s really hot during the day and then at work it’s always really cold. I think if I had to choose I’d want to be always hot. I hate the desert and I hate being hot, but something about being cold makes me feel like crap.
Its 9:30 and someone tells you to come meet them in some parking lot.
You barely know this person and its late at night,not super late but it
is dark out now.
Would you go?